Corsair has announced that it's buying streaming hardware provider Elgato Gaming, which should mean that in the not-to-distant future, Corsair will have its own brand of capture cards, chroma key screens, and streamer button panels.
The Munich-based Elgato Gaming is most well known for helping let's players and game streamers to outfit their gameplay stations with all of the additional kit they need beyond a decent PC, camera and microphone. It offers 4K capture cards for recording and broadcasting high-end content, a "cam-link," which allows streamers to hook up a high-end camera to their PC as if it was a webcam, a "stream deck," customizable button interface for easy actions mid-stream, and green screens to remove backdrops for game overlay video.
All of that may remain as part of the Elgato brand, but it's equally possible that in the near future Corsair phases out that brand and just renames all of it under the Corsair banner.
As some commenters have joked about the acquisition, it may be that Corsair brings some of its own penchants to bear on Elgato products -- like RGB LEDs. At the very least however, this purchase will mean a greater marketing budget for Elgato and a chance to be sold alongside established Corsair accessories in new stores and markets, so it should mean only good things for its existing and future hardware offerings.
